Record snowfall measurements taken at the Whitehorse International Airport show the capital area received more snow in three days than it usually gets in all of April.

And the 16.6 centimetres of snow that fell on Good Friday was the highest one-day snowfall on record, edging out the 16.3 cm of snow recorded on April 15, 1976.

Environment Canada meteorologist Bill Miller said this morning there was a total of 23.2 centimetres of snow between last Thursday night and Sunday morning.

The average snowfall for all of April at the airport is eight cm, he pointed out.

Reports from the Logan and Copper Ridge neighbourhoods indicated a total accumulation there of well in excess of 30 centimetres.

But north of the city, residents got nothing, as did Teslin.

Residents of the Annie Lake area, on the the other hand, were reporting some 50 cm of snow.

Miller noted that most unusual was the amount of water in the snow.

Whitehorse, he said, usually gets light fluffy snow. Normally, one would expect that with 16.6 cm of snow, there would be the equivalent of five millimetres of water.

The water equivalent of the 16.6 cm last Friday was 15.8 cm of water, he pointed out.

'This is the kind of snow you get around large, open bodies of water, like what comes into Buffalo (N.Y.) off Lake Ontario, and what comes into Vancouver off the ocean.'

Miller said temperatures hovering around the zero mark created the heavy snow.

The one storm, with its unusual snow, has made this April so far the 11th wettest April since records began in 1942, he said.

Meanwhile, the Yukon government's water resources branch is reporting above-average snowfall in the Whitehorse area during March had already increased to the accumulated snowpack, though it was still below normal as of April 1.

The Whitehorse area received 1 1/2 times the snow it usually sees in March.

Numbers indicate that up on Mount McIntyre, the accumulated snowpack had risen to just a hair below average by April 1, while down at the airport monitoring station it was 71 per cent of normal.

'A basin-wide average is estimated to be 85 per cent of normal,' says the snow survey bulletin published monthly through late winter and the spring.

Ric Janowicz of the territory's hydrology section said the snowpack throughout the entire territory is near average.

'If you were to summarize it for the whole Yukon, it would be around normal,' Janowicz said. 'The north Yukon is above normal, and other places are slightly below normal, but it is pretty normal.'

Janowicz was waiting today for the numbers to see exactly how much snow fell in the Whitehorse area, and how much water it contained, though he's not sure how much impact it will have on the overall picture, as it may all melt before the next survey toward the end of the month.